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Thompson dam 13th-15th April

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Thompson dam 13th-15th April

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Post by 6.5 rangie »

At the rate i'm going i will have to push my rangie there :cry:
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Post by mike_beecham »

Is all the Vic High Country open? Lat l heard it was still locked up????

Can a man get through to Dargo/Licola???


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Post by shakes »

I'll be in Rawson in the missus golf :roll:
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Post by chrisl »

i would like to go but that depends how much time we(that means me and you cloughy)have to do a motor change over and the flares and fit the front locker :lol:
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Post by cloughy »

chrisl wrote:i would like to go but that depends how much time we(that means me and you cloughy)have to do a motor change over and the flares and fit the front locker :lol:
You need to start turning up a little more, not cray fishing ;)
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Post by chrisl »

you tell me when to turn up and i will ,
how did you go with finding a rr for ash?
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Post by cloughy »

chrisl wrote:you tell me when to turn up and i will ,
how did you go with finding a rr for ash?
Your more than welcome to come out and give me a hand with my shit :D

Haven't found one yet, his in no rush, his buying a house, so funds are very slim
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Post by tna racing »

went up there 2 weeks ago n its crap no good tracks not worth the hassels cloughy
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Post by cloughy »

adam penfold wrote:went up there 2 weeks ago n its crap no good tracks not worth the hassels cloughy
Thats cause your not interested in any of the old mining gear that is now visible from the fires ;) There will be plenty of places to play, just got to know where to go :D
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Post by tna racing »

no tracks on the right as u cross the thompson dam are open and its a $400 on spot fine if u go past those lines and thats was told by a local cfa member
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Post by cloughy »

adam penfold wrote:no tracks on the right as u cross the thompson dam are open and its a $400 on spot fine if u go past those lines and thats was told by a local cfa member
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Post by GQ4.8coilcab »

i had a scary experience down thompson dam area. Went down the track to the spill way accidentally :roll: was pretty wet aswell and i was in a 100 series :shock:
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Post by tna racing »

haha beard more crossing my bro inlaw nearly lost his hilux going up that hill
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Post by chrisl »

beardmores track isnt what it used to be no big wash out at start of track anymore 90% of it has been graded for fire access so a bit girly now :)
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Post by GQ4.8coilcab »

so its not as bad now huh. Wasnt to good when we went down there. Nice down the bottom there, you could camp down there in ya swags seeing as though there is no chance of them releasing water :roll:
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Post by chrisl »

when did you go down as when i went there was about two ft of water thru crossing and just alot of bar and breaches nothing to bad altho was in rangie with 35s and 4 inch lift maybe thats why
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Post by GQ4.8coilcab »

chrisl wrote:when did you go down as when i went there was about two ft of water thru crossing and just alot of bar and breaches nothing to bad altho was in rangie with 35s and 4 inch lift maybe thats why
this is about 3 year ago and yer it was pretty difficult
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Post by chrisl »

they used to teach 4x4 courses on breadmores the first ob being the wash out to get down to the river then as you leave the staircase and half way up the 3ft rock wall, i did one as i was working in mines at walhalla 2 yrs ago quite a good track to learn on as we had staff from wa which is different 4x4 they found it quiet hard , we used a turbo deisel rodeo duel cab did quite well , i was suprised then i did it the next week in standard rangie scared the sh#t out of my mate, then 4 or 5 of us did in sept on way to woods point and it was soft lots of b\b
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Post by tna racing »

lol i seen a stock suzuki seirra get up that hill bout 2 years ago its been gradded
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Post by chrisl »

now i have my flairs on the family car thanks cloughy and a few cans
ill be there for sure just have to see if the 35`s will fit ithout hitting fuel tank or ill have to run my 33`s
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Post by cloughy »

chrisl wrote:now i have my flairs on the family car thanks cloughy and a few cans
ill be there for sure just have to see if the 35`s will fit ithout hitting fuel tank or ill have to run my 33`s
Pics :finger:
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Post by chrisl »

i got the 35`s on it no worrys just have to paint the rims

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Post by cloughy »

Good to see you've got the striping back on :roll:

How slow is it with the 35's??

Looks a bit better now :armsup:
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Post by chrisl »

its not to bad you can really notice it up hills tho

will do strips today and piping you up for a can later about 5 or 6
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Post by cloughy »

chrisl wrote:its not to bad you can really notice it up hills tho

will do strips today and piping you up for a can later about 5 or 6
Me??......Can??......of course :armsup:
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Post by cloughy »

Anyone keen :?
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Post by chrisl »

me
james his rangie
rob is buying troopy and will come
naboo coreys old rangie
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Post by cloughy »

Sounds good, did james get his fixed or is he dropping it to me??
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Post by chrisl »

at thirthty in mwell couldnt even start it to drive to you house was towed in
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